Fall Waning Harvest Moon Each turn of the Celtic seasonal calendar I find ideas, personal reflections, astronomical or traditional lore to pass along. This time I’ll pass along one from Waverly Fitzgerald who maintains a website, living in season. She suggests a seasonal pilgrimage, a visit each turn of the year to a place that, […]
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Beltane Waxing Garlic Moon Pentheus gets ripped apart by his mother and her fellow Bacchantes. The Guthrie’s production of The Bacchantes by Euripides several years ago gave the story a telling I’ve never forgotten. It gave me a jolt. I’ve moved on from Diana and Actaeon in Ovid to Pentheus. His story begins about 250 […]
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